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Russia's Staged State of the Nation

BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 13, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered his second state-of-the-nation address before the Russian parliament on Thursday. The speech's sternness and substance sounded like a sharp break with Russia's political and economic stagnation under President-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was seated in the front Foreign Policy Russia's Staged State of the Nation...

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